Show IT advertises UTAH since the last issue of the mining review much interest has been taken in the reported theft of a bar of gold bullion while in transit from the west to the east the bar was on one e of four in the consignment and was valued in the near neighborhood of making the value of the four about the bar in question was stolen while piled on a truck at the depot at detroit michigan and up to date the thief has not been found for sometime much speculation was indulged in as to the locality from whence this gold bullion came cam el but it now transpires that it was the product of the con mercur gold mines company of mercur utah as the company has been advised from new york that its last consignment of four bars was one bar short this of itself would settle the disputed point as to the origin of the gold another argument in favor of this solution of the question being that the mercur company is about the only mining concern in the west that casts its gold into such large bars of course the loss will be made good by the express companies it is to be regretted that it should be obliged to sustain such a loss but as the saying is it is an ill wind that blows nobody good in this instance the notoriety given to this theft pf af bullion by the press of the united states has created widespread wide spread interest in utah as a wealth producing state and has called especial attention to the con mercur company in that it is able to consign in gold bars in one shipment to the mints of the east if this were an isolated case of such shipment the fact might not cause comment but when it is known that it is of regular monthly occurrence and that it is usual with the company to turn out five or six such bars every thirty days some idea of the richness of this great producer and dividend paying mine can be conceived even by those not conversant with the magnitude of the mining industry of the west in another column we publish an article on the condition of the mercur mine which will make interesting reading for the fortu nate of this great company |